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		</div><p>Theresa May’s last-minute Brexit agreements “reduce the risk” that the UK could be trapped indefinitely in the backstop, but do not remove it altogether, Britain&#8217;s Attorney General Geoffrey Cox has said.</p>
<p>The Attorney’s legal advice deals a significant blow to the British Prime Minister’s hopes of overturning MPs’ 230-vote rejection of her Withdrawal Agreement in the second “meaningful vote” on the deal in the House of Commons this evening.</p>
<p>Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Cox had confirmed that “no significant changes” had been secured to the Withdrawal Agreement and the Government’s strategy was “in tatters”.</p>
<p>The advice was issued the morning after Mrs May’s dash to Strasbourg to finalise a deal with Jean-Claude Juncker which she said would deliver “legally-binding” reassurances for MPs to ensure the backstop cannot be permanent.</p>
<p>In it, Mr Cox said that documents agreed in Strasbourg “reduce the risk that the United Kingdom could be indefinitely and involuntarily detained” in the backstop by EU bad faith or a failure by Brussels to use its “best endeavours” to negotiate a permanent deal on the future relationship.</p>
<p><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/8FA912C1-EC37-4FBC-B583-02AE2EF8CD29.jpeg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-127724" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/8FA912C1-EC37-4FBC-B583-02AE2EF8CD29.jpeg" alt="" width="1094" height="1605" /></a></p>
<p>But he warned that the question of whether a satisfactory agreement on a future UK/EU relationship can be reached remains “a political judgment”.</p>
<p>And he said that “the legal risk remains unchanged” that if no such agreement can be reached due to “intractable differences”, the UK would have “no internationally lawful means” of leaving the backstop without EU agreement.</p>
<figure id="attachment_127725" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-127725" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1D54DBBD-4280-412E-BA14-D769ADB3D90A.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-127725" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1D54DBBD-4280-412E-BA14-D769ADB3D90A.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-127725" class="wp-caption-text">European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said there will be no new negotiations</figcaption></figure>
<p>Sir Keir said in a tweet: “Attorney General confirms that there have been no significant changes to the Withdrawal Agreement despite the legal documents that were agreed last night. The Government’s strategy is now in tatters.”</p>
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